Quotes for All
One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when the performance is in a domain that imposes standards of risk, attempts may or may not meet such standards. And the relevant competence of agents then includes reliably enough meeting those … Read more
If the statistics are boring, you’ve got the wrong numbers. Edward Tufte
We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as … Read more
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Edgar Allan Poe
I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me Douglas Bader
‘You might think of combinatorics as a machine too’, the major says. ‘A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage’s analytic engine? He never built it. … I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.’ He taps his own skull. David Leavitt
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data. Daniel Keys Moran
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort … Read more
Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it. Dan Ariely
Data are becoming the new raw material of business. Craig Mundie